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One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

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There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

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How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

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If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

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A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

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Action expresses priorities.